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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

Jorge Luis Borges

I think most people are more important than their opinions.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Important Opinion People Thinking
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Color Reflection Rose
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Allow Himself History Human Sea
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Existence Man Present Reflection Time Yourself
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Fantasy Hard Time Himself Man Opportunity Skills Story
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Himself Writing
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Accomplishment Future Past
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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Music Time Translation Understand
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself

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